Humans get 10 more years to save Earth

IPCC in its fourth assessment report had warned that at current rates of greenhouse gas emissions from the rich and the developing worlds, the global climate could warm by 0.2 degree Celsius in a decade, raising the sea level and leading to dramatic consequences for coastal societies in particular.

It's known that though increasing greenhouse gas emissions push temperatures upwards, the warming curve is not smooth — there would be periods when processes aid the heating, while the opposite happens during other periods.

Now, research carried out by scientists from Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences and Max Plank Institute of Meteorology, both based in Germany, has shown that the next decade is going to be one such period when natural occurrences negate the effect of increasing emissions and keep global climate cooler than what was forecast earlier.

All predictions of global temperature changes are based on complex mathematical models that create future scenarios according to parameters and data that scientists feed in.